Data processing and analysis: Glossary

The options you set for the command-line tools you use are important!

Data cleaning is an essential step in a genomics workflow.

Bioinformatic command line tools are collections of commands that can be used to carry out bioinformatic analyses.

To use most powerful bioinformatic tools, you’ll need to use the command line.

There are many different file formats for storing genomics data. It’s important to understand what type of information is contained in each file, and how it was derived.

We can combine multiple commands into a shell script to automate a workflow.

Use echo statements within your scripts to get an automated progress update.